Martin Buber

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

— Martin Buber

Play is the exultation of the possible.

— Martin Buber

All real living is meeting.

— Martin Buber

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

— Martin Buber

One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.

— Martin Buber

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

— Martin Buber

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

— Martin Buber

God dwells wherever man lets Him in.

— Martin Buber

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

— Martin Buber

The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

— Martin Buber

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

— Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

— Martin Buber

To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover...

— Martin Buber

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

— Martin Buber

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

— Martin Buber

Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.

— Martin Buber

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a…

— Martin Buber

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image…

— Martin Buber

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

— Martin Buber

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one…

— Martin Buber

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to…

— Martin Buber

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in…

— Martin Buber

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have…

— Martin Buber

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

— Martin Buber

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the…

— Martin Buber

Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot…

— Martin Buber

If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and…

— Martin Buber

Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a…

— Martin Buber

What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you!…

— Martin Buber

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him.…

— Martin Buber

I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing…

— Martin Buber

“As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and the…

— Martin Buber

Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows,…

— Martin Buber

The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is…

— Martin Buber

A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked…

— Martin Buber

He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he…

— Martin Buber

The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they…

— Martin Buber

About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as…

— Martin Buber

“If I had been asked in my early youth whether I preferred to have dealings only with men or only with books,…

— Martin Buber

I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach…

— Martin Buber